Augmented reality is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality, which creates a totally artificial environment, augmented reality uses the existing environment and overlays new information on top of it.
Augmented reality adds digital imagery and data to supplement views of the real world, giving users more information about their environments. That's a step beyond virtual reality, which attempts to simulate reality.
Google glass and heads-up displays in car windshields are perhaps the most well-known consumer AR products, but the technology is used in many industries including healthcare, public safety, gas and oil, tourism and marketing. Augmented reality which enhances the physical world with digital data and images, could make industrial repairs easier.
Firms such as Magic Leap, Meta and Microsoft, are building much more capable headsets that can sense their surroundings and react to them, projecting convincing, three-dimensional illusions onto the world.
The devices that support AR
1) Microsoft Hololens
2) Google Glass
HTC Vive and HoloLens hack combines VR and AR for true mixed reality.
MS Hololens
Google Glass
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